On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:11 +0100, harry weston wrote: > How does one defrag Fedora. Often, when the prog is on standby, I hear > the HD chortling away to itself. Wonder what its doing?. Regards, As Andy said, the need for defragging isn't there. You're probably noticing your system building a database (e.g. scanning the drive contents so the next time you try to "locate" some file, it's got the answer in its index for a quick reply). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.